listen to the show wherever you get your podcasts. the lead starts with wolf plitser in the situation room. happening now breaking news, a huge legal and financial blow to donald trump. a jury says he should may more than $83 million in damages to writer e. jean carroll for defamatory statements he made about her. we re breaking down the verdict and the message it sends to the former president and the clear front-runner for the 2024 republican presidential nomination. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the major breaking news we re following right now. the bombshell verdict in the defamation trial against donald trump. the former president now on the hook for a stunning $83.3 million. let s go to cnn s cara scannell outside the courthouse in new york where all this unfolded. kara, walk us through this verdict. reporter: wolf,
in fact, all around the is horr million jews slaughtered. so important indeed. and to our viewers thanks very much for watching. erin out front next, breaking news. trump hit with a more than $83 million verdict for his repeated attacks on e. jean carroll. a c? plus fighting intensifies in gaza. you ll hear from an american doctor who has just returned from the area. why he calls this conflict and what he saw on the ground the worst he s ever seen. and new tonight a border shutdown. cnn learning a key group of senators have now agreed to close the southern border if m specific number. let s go out front. good evening. i m erika hill in for erin burnett. out front tonight, breaking news. $83.3 million. that is what a jury says donald trump must pay e. jean carroll for defaming her while he was president. this is the woman of course trump was found liable for sexually abusing. $83.3 million is a massive number. there s no way getting around that. it was agreed upon afte
chinatown and dc, and even more boxes at the universitys f pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floo rkr where he parks his corvette and which is secured by only a garageor door that. is paper thin and open. most of the timeump also. trump also said he has been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse iurthousn miami, florida, next tuesday. another quot ie i never thought it was possible that such a thing could happen to a former unite president of the ud states. i am an innocent mann innoce, hd this is indeed a dark da sy forf the united states of america. matthew whitaker is the former acting attorney generaorney gelr former president trump. he joins me now with reaction. first first of all, just your in reaction to what the formet jur president just said. this is a dark day for this nation. yeahs, harris, good to be with you. it s a really sad day for our countrd da y. i mean, if you believe ine the rule of law and if you believe in equal justice
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abortion rights after the supreme court s decision to overturn roe v. wade. while republican mark molinaro focused on inflation and crime. in the end, pat ryan, the democrat, beat his republican opponent. here is how his fellow new yorker and congressman sean patrick maloney, who runs the dccc and just won his own primary viewed that race. that is an earthquake and should send sifrs down the sign of kevin mccarthy and tom elmert, because their dreams of a big republican wave just went up in flames. the person you want to break this down, steve kornacki, who called the race the single biggest results of the primary season. we re going to get steve s ear piece fixed in a moment. he ll join me in just a second to break down all of these results out of new york and florida. and more revelations about the classified documents at the center of the fbi s search at mar-a-lago, including new questions about the risk to our national security. those boxes contain documents classifie